A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. Reporting in the ...

Recent excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of a rare blue pigment that hint at the palace’s former glory. When Nero’s imperial palace ...

Archaeologists in Rome have discovered beautiful, ancient paint—but not just any paint. Known as “Egyptian Blue,” it’s among the oldest synthetic pigments in the world, with the newly found ingot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have found a way to reproduce the world's oldest synthetic pigment visible on this ancient wooden falcon artifact. For ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. A team of Washington State University-led researchers has ...

The Carnegie Musuem of Natural History team is at the Edward O’Neil Research Center taking samples of blue pigment from a small sculpture in their care. (photo courtesy Matt Unger/Carnegie Museum of ...

A team of scientists in Germany has found a new, biomedical, use for a pigment invented by the Ancient Egyptians by turning it into nano-sized particles. Egyptian Blue is one of the oldest manmade ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A color pigment developed by the ancient Egyptians thousands of years ...